Facilities

Access

Parking

Visitor centre

The exhibition area and toilets are on the first floor, up a modern spiral staircase with handrails on both sides.

Level access to the first floor via a ramp is also available – the steward will open this route on request.

Monument

The route from the visitor centre to the church, through the remains of the abbey outbuildings (cloister range), is about 65m long.

It starts as a timber-decked steel bridge featuring one flight of 28 steps and another of 8 steps (both with shallow treads and handrails on both sides). The route continues as gravel paths with four sets of steps (two with handrails).

There is also a flight of:

9 unevenly spaced steps (no handrail) at the east processional doorway into the church